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Very, very nice!! The gradients diverging vertically and horizontally creates a great effect.

The depth of flower color is very good. Was the wind blowing? -- some of the foreground appears to have a motion blur. I wonder how it would look if the grass and flowers had been allowed to freely move, blurred against the static sky an mountians.

Bluish spots are where ice crystals refract light in strange ways. I noticed the phenom when I first moved here; its like the way ice can give the blue look even in direct sunlight. This not just fog it is a frozen fog.

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Kellen and Amilcar

 

Thank you for the generous comments. Here are some technical details:

Five shot bracketed exposure (-2 to +2 ev); inital processing in Nikon Capture no modification except to convert 5 shots into 8bit TIFF files; which were combined in Photomatix (keep the saturation at about 65, Amilcar); then TLR B/W Landscape I and TLR Selenium B/W Toning actions to create BW; finally, a gray gradient, reflected on sky and foregroun was used to show off the "glowing" aspen.

Thank you Kellen for your very thoughtful "seeing" of this photo. I was riding along in a North Georgia town and saw this scene, and could not resist. I'm very glad you like it.

Great tonal and color consistency as flower emerges out or submerges into the water

Thank you Amilcar. This is the sun shining through clouds onto a group of aspens that still had some leaves. The light was so bright on the one tree it seem to glow. I'm glad you like it. NOT IR.

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Great tones and detail. Stunning and outstanding

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Very nice. It could use a little bit of sharpening, just enough where you don't get halos, to differentiate the leaves. Tones on the leaves are beautiful.

Yep!!

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Try to get something like this from your original; editing low qual. jpegs does not give good results.

The foreground needs some constrast to bring out the shadows in the decking; the rope needs some differentiation from the deck. In PS or other software you can tweak the curve to make it a little steeper -- more contrast. Try using a gradient mask layer to darken background, since its out of focus anyway give it less emphasis, but the boat needs some tonal work so that it stands out from the deck. The sky in the background is too light. I see some clouds, can you bring them out?

I noticed that too. So, as you said, there must be away to get this right and reliable.

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Yes that's what I mean. HDR in PS has a dialog, that allows minimal but adequate adjustment, when the HDR file is converted to 8 or 16 bits. Local adaptation option has two sliders, radius and threshold (like usm?), which can produce wierd affects. Also, this option allows manipulation of the curve, AND this is where the weird radius and threshold settings can be ampliphied/dampened to get a resonable affect. But not the noise that Photomatix seems to add. I'll play with it some more.

Carsten and Amilcar,

I just posted some stuff using photoshop cs2 hdr. The local adaptation feature allows curve manipulation and pixel radius, which gives decent results. Photamtix's algorithms must use a very high radius that is seen when the sky is clear and is constrated with objects like landscapes.

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Thanks Amilcar,

I like this one better too. There is a piece of quartz(ite) in the right center of the rock that caught my eye. I need to take this again earlier or later in the day the sun is 12 o'clock high, so I constrained the shot. This scene is about 1/2 mile from my house. Aspen leaves look better when backlit.

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